Chapter 141 Winning the First Stage of the Hunhe Bloody Battle
The Ming army was given a stick of incense to rest and recuperate.
That night, more than 2,000 people were killed and more than 6,000 were injured. There were many injured, and more than 1,000 were completely disabled and could no longer fight. However, the remaining injured and injured all held weapons and still stood on the battlefield.
"The Ming Dynasty will be victorious!"
No matter how tired the Ming army was, their morale was still high.
Because it’s almost dawn!
In this short period of time, the Ming army changed its formation.
All the artillery was placed on the sides and back, the muskets were also placed on the sides, and the wounded were placed on the flanks for defense.
The remaining melee troops and horses of the entire army that could attack were concentrated on the front.
At this moment, a ray of morning sun rose in the east.
The Hunhe Bastion suddenly lit up in the darkness.
Brown civil structures were scattered everywhere, and the pools of blood on the ground were already black. White smoke rose from time to time, and some flames added some black smoke.
The Ming troops in the center and south of the bastion had their armor soaked in blood, their flags were blackened by smoke, and their weapons were often broken and damaged. But their faces were resolute, and no matter how tired they were, their faces were filled with determination to win.
On the Jiannu side, it was completely the opposite. The yellow, red, blue, and white armor flags looked quite decent, but the Jiannu soldiers were squatting behind the shield carts one by one and smiling obscenely. The coatsmen had a look in their eyes.
They were all naked, looking forward to the "dream of raising the flag" like a painted cake, but their spirits were like ghosts, and no one rushed forward.
The battlefield was temporarily at a standstill, and Jiannu was ready for the next onslaught.
Nurhachi wiped his scimitar and pulled his precious eagle bow.
Huang Taiji and Mang Gurtai, this time too, will take their guards and charge forward personally, determined to capture the Ming army no matter what.
Although the five auxiliary ministers Fei Yingdong, E Yidu, He Lili, Hu Erhan and An Feiyanggu were old and some were still sick, they polished their swords and prepared for the decisive battle.
Just waiting for the order from the Great Khan Nurhachi.
The Ming army will also fight again.
Because it's not enough to crush the enemy's offensive once!
It’s better to defeat Jiannu!
"Toot! Toot! Toot!"
Suddenly a horn sounded from the southeast.
This is the trumpet of the Ming army!
"Reinforcements have arrived! Come forward, veterans!"
Chen Ce, a 69-year-old veteran general, took the lead in the charge.
"The wind is roaring! The horses are braying! The Yellow River is roaring, the Yellow River is roaring!" Tong Zhongkui sang "Defend the Yellow River" taught by Wang Hongyu, and in a few quick steps he surpassed Chen Ce and took the first place.
"It's not a hero to be afraid of death. He charges forward with his gun, and only one roar makes the enemy tremble in fear!"
Zhou Dunji, Wang Hongyu, Qi Jin, Zhang Mingshi, Zhao Hannian and others rushed towards the enemy.
"Come on, veteran, did you hear that? Come on, kill without leaving any chance!"
The Confederate army launched an attack, with guns and cannons firing, arrows flying, swords and guns raised, and everyone vying for the lead.
Jiannu was caught off guard. The Bao Yi was still at the front of the queue, and Jiannu's main force was still behind.
The coatsmen, who could not withstand the fierce attack, suddenly became discouraged and ran away.
Outside the fortress, the shouts of killing shook the heaven and the earth.
Jiang Bi, You Shilu, Qin Bangping, Qin Minping and others launched a flanking attack according to the agreed time and had torn through the slave-building front.
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Originally, Nurhachi left Dai Shanzheng's red flag troops 20 miles away to monitor the Ming army that fought during the day...
They used the tactics of suspicion and set up an ambush to prevent them from interfering.
In fact, Zhenghongqi alone cannot defeat those Ming troops, but at least it can cause considerable losses through ambush, or entanglement and delay, preventing them from intervening in this execution battle.
As a result, they never expected that the Ming army twenty miles away not only rested for the night, but also blew the attack horn in the southeast of their own formation.
At the same time, the Confederate troops in the bastion sang war songs and launched a charge. It was obvious that they were planning to attack from the north and the south.
In particular, You Shilu led 3,000 cavalry and fired arrows regardless of the pursuit of Daishan's cavalry.
There are many people who have been hit by arrows in the back, so they have to rush over with all their strength.
The banners of Jiannu quickly sent troops to guard against the side attack of the cavalry.
However, the rout of the pack in front suddenly disrupted the formation.
Like an irresistible torrent, the fleeing coats of pigs and wolves instantly overwhelmed the unprepared front line of the slave-building army. These slave-building soldiers were mercilessly trampled by their slave coats.
The masters got angry and picked up the weapons in their hands to kill the soldiers. The soldiers saw the miserable fate of the same kind who had attacked the fortress not long ago and used them as cannon fodder.
Knowing that they had been deceived, it turned out that they were not allowed to perform meritorious service and raise flags, but were used as human shields to die, and now they were killing them. In the face of death, they chose to resist and hugged Jiannu to death.
Bao Yi was caught between the Confederate Army and the Jian Nu, and they were killing them both in front and behind, creating a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood, and rivers of blood.
The Confederate army advanced with guns, cannons and swords, beating the soldiers in the way to pieces and fleeing.
The slaves also moved forward with their knives and chopped the overwrought soldiers alive into pulp.
The prisoners didn't want to die in vain, so they wielded weapons to kill the slaves.
It can't cut through Jiannu's heavy armor.
Then hug them, strangle them, crush them to death, and bite them to death!
Bao Yi and Jian slaves killed each other until they cried for father and mother.
Nurhaci lost his usual composure and personally led 3,000 elite soldiers of two yellow flags to the northwest.
Regardless of whether they are slaves or slaves, anyone who faces you will be killed without mercy.
Nurhaci led 3,000 taels of yellow flags and quickly met the charging Southern army head-on. Because of the congestion of rebel troops on both sides, the passage left for Nurhaci's escort was only 23 steps wide.
Directly in front was the attack direction of the Zhejiang soldiers. The Zhejiang soldiers installed the Franchise machine and the Tiger squatting gun on the chariot, and the auxiliary soldiers were advancing while firing.
At the front were the three-eyed musketeers, followed by the arquebusiers, who charged and attacked in a progressive manner. They all used paper packets of powder, and the charging speed was much faster than Jiannu imagined.
Zhou Dunji and Wang Hongyu, who had fought twice with Xianglan Banner, saw Jiannu voluntarily giving up the passage, and more than 3,000 elite soldiers wearing two yellow flags and armor rushed over.
"Old slave's two yellow flag elites!" Zhou Dunji and Wang Hongyu shouted at the same time, and quickly asked Chen Ce to notify Zhang Mingshi in flag language:
"When we get close to 100 steps, we start bombarding with artillery, and fire our arquebuses!"
"The Three-Eyed Gun Army runs to support the left and right wings!"
They knew that the elite slave-builders could kill the target within a hundred steps, and they could not be allowed to get within a hundred steps, otherwise the Zhejiang soldiers would suffer heavy losses.
The Sichuan soldiers on the two wings, the Youyang chieftain soldiers, some white pole soldiers, and the Fujian soldiers were mostly sword and shield soldiers, archers, and hand crossbow soldiers.
The French cannons and squatting tiger cannons were mainly left by Zhou Dunji and Wang Hongyu. They had three-eyed blunderbuss and very few matchlock guns...
Half of the troops on both wings were engaged in close combat with the Jiannu, and the majority of the Jiannu counterattacked, resulting in serious casualties.
Now with the support of the three-eyed gun, the pressure is suddenly relieved a lot. This is the wonder of the wild goose formation trained by Wang Hongyu.
All the Sichuan army's artillery fired shotguns, and the poisoned arrows used by the Youyang soldiers also all hit the Jiannu array on both wings.
The elite troops of the Two Yellow Banners were covered by the dense gunfire, bows and arrows of the Zhejiang soldiers, killing and wounding hundreds of people at once.
Nurhachi is wearing three layers of heavy armor, but he is still full of vigor and vitality, and the dynamic vision of the battlefield is excellent.
He found a Ming army general on the opposite side, who was very powerful in commanding the firing of muskets and artillery. He stood majestically on the artillery cart. It was none other than Zhang Mingshi, the general of the Zhejiang army.
The old slave picked up the carved bow and shot an arrow accurately.
A guard next to Zhang Mingshi saw someone standing on a horse 150 steps away with a bow raised, and pushed Zhang Mingshi away. He was shot in the right rib by an old slave and died in battle.
When the elite troops of Nurhachi's Two Yellow Banners appeared, Wang Hongyu gave an order to Li Tiezhu, who commanded the iron-core copper-bodied cannon on the bastion, to bombard the two yellow banners vertically.
The artillery shells flew over and directly cut the two yellow flag army formations into gaps dozens of steps long, breaking legs and short arms flying everywhere.
Since Wang Hongyu's uncles and nephews from the Lu family and the gunners were of high skill and close to each other, it could be said that every shot was accurate and the bullets were perfect.
Most of the Franchise and Crouching Tiger artillery were focused on the two-yellow-flag formation. This was the principle set before the war: If you find Jiannu's two-yellow flag and the white flag, hit them to death!
The old woman tried to be cunning and failed to behead the old slave. Knowing that she had been captured, she hurriedly jumped off the horse and called for the guards to cover her. Dozens of shields covered the old slave, and shotguns rained down immediately.
The old slave hurriedly rolled to the side seven or eight steps away, and saw that dozens of guards holding shields were almost dead and injured, and the iron shields were penetrated by iron nails and shotguns.
This kind of iron nail shotgun is difficult to make. It needs to be thick at one end and thin at the other. It was specially made by Li Tiezhu. The key is that the mold making is very time-consuming.
Li Tiezhu got his inspiration from making briquettes. It is like a laboratory cluster dropper, but it is solid. Once it is inserted into the mud, it can be pulled out to become a mold.
After the cast iron nails are made, wax is fixed into a cylinder. When fired, the wax melts and burns, and the nails gradually disperse after rushing out of the muzzle.
Especially when it is thrown high into the sky by the Crouching Tiger Cannon, its lethality when falling is greater than that of the original round cannon.
Nurhachi looked disgraced and looked back. Except for the guards of the two yellow flags, the guards of other flags were not so desperate.
"retreat!"
Nurhachi could only do this.
He saw that in close combat, the Hou Jin army did not gain the upper hand.
Qin Bangping and Qin Minping led the Sichuan troops and white pole troops to directly attack the enemy's flank and rear on the east side. Several times the Jiannu infantry could not stop their attack, and Jiannu could not mobilize a large number of infantry to support them.
However, there were too many frontal fights and killings, so the Confederate army was always in a situation where there were more and fewer soldiers. This was the advantage of the white-pole soldier formation and weapons.
Jiang Bi's 2000 Wu Jing Battalion also fought bravely against the enemy and entered the enemy's formation from the south, echoing the Sichuan Army's spear phalanx.
Half of You Shilu's 7,000 troops were cavalry. The cavalry carried out a piercing attack, leaving their backs to Daishan's Zhenghong Banner. In order to break up the Jiannu formation, they suffered heavy casualties, and most of them were hit by arrows in the back.
The remaining 3,000 or so infantry attacked the Jiannu flanks. Since the Jiannu were passive at the beginning of the war, they gradually shrank to the east. The fighting on the west side was not fierce and the losses were relatively small.
Jiannu's archers and ordinary soldiers directly let the Sichuan army's spear phalanx pass through.
This powerful army, which had defeated both the Jiannu and the Blue Flag, entered the enemy's formation as if it were entering an uninhabited land.
Although You Shilu's cavalry was also shot by the Zhenghongqi cavalry behind them and suffered huge losses, it played a significant role in disrupting the Jiannu formation.
Under such a situation, the main force of the Jiannu retreated in embarrassment, leaving a large number of flags and weapons scattered on the ground.
If Nurhaci hadn't personally cut off the retreat and stabilized the situation, I'm afraid the retreat would have turned into a rout.
But even so, they suffered a total of 5,000 casualties, and lost several thousand bags and almost all shield vehicles. This was the largest loss since Nurhachi's campaign.